Racial and ethnic leaders around the world who promote a separate cultural "identity" are inflicting a handicap on their own people. Isolation has held back many peoples in many lands, for centuries. But such social and cultural isolation serves the interests of today's ethnic leaders.

With the blessing of the Obama administration, Alabama — along with many other states — has established student achievement standards that differ by race and other factors, with blacks and Hispanics expected to perform much more poorly than whites and Asians.

It is hoped that with the implementation of South Dakota's "School Sentinel" law, allowing teachers and other school personnel to carry sidearms, that other states will quickly pass similar laws, reducing the threats of future Columbines, Virginia Techs, and Sandy Hooks.

Australia’s scandal-infested Catholic Church is now paying a terrible penalty for its eagerness, almost half a century ago, to become a pensioner of Big Government. Let Americans study the results, and take warning.